Frederik Pohl Quotes
The big new development in my life is, when I turned 80, I decided I no longer have to do four pages a day. For me, it's like retiring.
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It's not complicated to embrace life. You just have to make the choice.
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I want to love life.
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Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
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Some people think that religion is not essential to society. I do not hold this view. I consider the foundation of religion to be essential to the life and practices of a society.
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As an actor, I've always wanted to do characters that would help me find my connection with others and connect all of us together. You always want the energy of the character, the spirit of the person, to enter you. I've been doing this for 26 years and some of the things I've done are always with me.
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This experience has also humbled me by giving me a true understanding of what millions of others face each day in their own fight against cancer.
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What makes life worth living? Better surely, to yield to the stain of suicide blood in me and seek forgetfulness in the embrace of cold dark death.
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Have an earnestness for death and you will have life.
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My view is that when in doubt, society should err on the side of life.
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I can't give a decent toast to save my life.
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Success is a completely abstract thing - it has no bearing on daily life, family matters, the matter of artistic creation, but it can affect grace, and if I lose that, I really have gained nothing from success.
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No one can be an artist without a rich inner life.
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As far as Raman Raghav is concerned, he is ruthless.
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Even though many couples are choosing to marry later in life, our laws haven't been updated to address dating partner abuse.
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I've had boxing gloves on since before I could walk and been in gyms all of my life.
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The real guys that I knew were really cool people, who I played basketball with and traveled with on teams and knew their families and knew that they love their family. They just happen to do something that wasn't all the way legal, but it was a part of their life, and you knew that they hustled.
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The yogi should meditate on a firm seat, one that is clean - untainted by dirt or unspiritual vibrations of others. The thought or life force emanating from an individual saturates the objects he uses and his dwelling.
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Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.
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I had too many big passions in life and it gets in the way of work. You can't concentrate properly on the one thing.
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I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn't know how to get along without it.
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I don't know why I'm drawn to anti-heroes, but I certainly am.
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I got to watch my heroes meet him and saw how they reacted, whether it was Joe Strummer or Tom Waits. It was peculiar. I'm so stoked to meet Tom Waits, and he's so nervous to meet my dad. It's a head spin.
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The big new development in my life is, when I turned 80, I decided I no longer have to do four pages a day. For me, it's like retiring.
